Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 253 306
Rank change year-on-year -104 +53 -84
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 456 585 940
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.34% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.44% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 217 283 523
10th Percentile £37,950 £48,750 £38,844
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,145 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +7.41% -3.57%
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £86,875
90th Percentile £104,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £66,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.79% +15.22% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,107 40,669 85,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 93.11% 83.11%
Number of salaries quoted 45,062 21,401 61,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,114 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 4 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -92 415 £66,771 -7.90% 779
London -1 259 £80,000 - 552
Work from Home +63 252 £63,076 -4.07% 349
UK excluding London -176 140 £63,076 -4.79% 281
North of England -29 49 £71,255 -10.93% 59
North West +14 32 £85,000 +6.12% 37
South East -127 27 £46,250 -33.93% 84
East of England -20 25 £65,000 -10.34% 21
Midlands -51 19 £58,750 -9.62% 37
South West -81 18 £61,845 +3.07% 39
West Midlands -38 17 £57,500 -17.27% 23
Yorkshire -43 14 £61,963 +90.65% 17
Scotland +2 3 £55,000 -32.31% 19
North East -35 3 £63,076 -32.72% 5
East Midlands -32 2 £152,500 +190.48% 14
Wales -38 2 £69,501 +16.11% 11

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 14 (3.07%) Confluence
3 10 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.88%) CMS
6 1 (0.22%) Drupal
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 54 (11.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 28 (6.14%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (8.55%) Workfront
2 5 (1.10%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.88%) Shopify
4 3 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.22%) Magento
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 80 (17.54%) AWS
2 58 (12.72%) SaaS
3 53 (11.62%) iPaaS
4 52 (11.40%) Azure
5 18 (3.95%) Pulumi
6 15 (3.29%) GitHub
6 15 (3.29%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.85%) GCP
8 12 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.41%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (1.97%) OneDrive
11 8 (1.75%) Figma
12 7 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.32%) Asana
14 5 (1.10%) Snowflake
15 4 (0.88%) Azure AI
15 4 (0.88%) Google Workspace
15 4 (0.88%) H2O.ai
15 4 (0.88%) Miro
15 4 (0.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 78 (17.11%) Broadband
2 30 (6.58%) HTTP
3 12 (2.63%) WAN
4 10 (2.19%) SD-WAN
5 9 (1.97%) LAN
6 5 (1.10%) Firewall
6 5 (1.10%) Multicast
6 5 (1.10%) Network Security
7 4 (0.88%) MPLS
7 4 (0.88%) NGN
8 3 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.66%) WLAN
9 2 (0.44%) SAN
9 2 (0.44%) Wireless
10 1 (0.22%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.22%) RS-232
10 1 (0.22%) RS-485
10 1 (0.22%) Skype
10 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.50%) Metadata
2 19 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.95%) NoSQL
3 18 (3.95%) RDBMS
4 13 (2.85%) Power BI
5 7 (1.54%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.10%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.66%) Big Data
7 3 (0.66%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.66%) Tableau
8 2 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.44%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 26 (5.70%) JIRA
2 18 (3.95%) Jaeger
3 6 (1.32%) Git
4 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 159 (34.87%) Marketing
2 138 (30.26%) Finance
3 137 (30.04%) Social Skills
4 73 (16.01%) Banking
5 59 (12.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 58 (12.72%) Retail
7 56 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
8 47 (10.31%) Law
9 45 (9.87%) Influencing Skills
10 44 (9.65%) Presentation Skills
11 31 (6.80%) Public Sector
12 28 (6.14%) Legal
13 24 (5.26%) Back Office
14 16 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (3.07%) Italian Language
15 14 (3.07%) Retail Banking
16 13 (2.85%) Manufacturing
17 12 (2.63%) Financial Institution
18 11 (2.41%) German Language
19 9 (1.97%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 131 (28.73%) Product Manager
2 82 (17.98%) Lead
3 75 (16.45%) Product Owner
4 69 (15.13%) Senior
5 41 (8.99%) Senior Manager
6 37 (8.11%) Senior Product Manager
7 33 (7.24%) Software Engineer
8 31 (6.80%) Development Engineer
9 30 (6.58%) Software Development Engineer
10 21 (4.61%) Developer
11 20 (4.39%) Product Lead
12 19 (4.17%) Consultant
12 19 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
13 15 (3.29%) Cloud Engineer
14 14 (3.07%) Business Consultant
14 14 (3.07%) Business Development Consultant
14 14 (3.07%) Development Consultant
15 12 (2.63%) AWS Developer
15 12 (2.63%) Azure Developer
15 12 (2.63%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (7.02%) REST
2 18 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (3.95%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (1.32%) CSS
3 6 (1.32%) HTML
4 5 (1.10%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (1.10%) PyTorch
4 5 (1.10%) TensorFlow
5 4 (0.88%) Keras
5 4 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.66%) .NET
7 2 (0.44%) Pandas
7 2 (0.44%) Plotly
7 2 (0.44%) Seaborn
7 2 (0.44%) Spring
7 2 (0.44%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.22%) LangChain
8 1 (0.22%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.22%) Playwright
8 1 (0.22%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 159 (34.87%) Product Ownership
2 64 (14.04%) Social Media
3 54 (11.84%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (11.84%) Over-the-Top Content
4 33 (7.24%) Cloud Native
5 31 (6.80%) Public Cloud
6 21 (4.61%) Onboarding
7 19 (4.17%) Management Information System
8 14 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.63%) Web Conferencing
10 11 (2.41%) Enterprise Cloud
11 10 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.75%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.54%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.54%) Data Fabric
13 7 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.54%) Podcast
14 6 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
15 5 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
15 5 (1.10%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.14%) Linux
2 19 (4.17%) Unix
3 8 (1.75%) Windows
4 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.22%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (65.35%) Roadmaps
2 217 (47.59%) Agile
3 138 (30.26%) Product Roadmap
4 120 (26.32%) Product Vision
5 106 (23.25%) Decision-Making
6 93 (20.39%) Mentoring
7 89 (19.52%) User Stories
8 83 (18.20%) AI
9 82 (17.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 82 (17.98%) Product Requirements
10 81 (17.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 80 (17.54%) Customer Experience
12 78 (17.11%) Product Backlog
13 74 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
14 72 (15.79%) Sprint Planning
15 62 (13.60%) User Experience
15 62 (13.60%) Workflow
16 61 (13.38%) Digital Marketing
17 60 (13.16%) Matrix Organization
18 59 (12.94%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (11.84%) Java
2 32 (7.02%) Python
3 26 (5.70%) JavaScript
4 20 (4.39%) Bash
5 18 (3.95%) Go
6 9 (1.97%) SQL
7 6 (1.32%) Bicep
8 4 (0.88%) R
9 3 (0.66%) C#
9 3 (0.66%) PHP
10 2 (0.44%) C++
10 2 (0.44%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.22%) C
11 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 71 (15.57%) Degree
2 19 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 16 (3.51%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.85%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.97%) HND
7 8 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.75%) HNC
8 7 (1.54%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.32%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.66%) CCNA
10 3 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.66%) CISSP
10 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.44%) ACCA
11 2 (0.44%) CBAP
11 2 (0.44%) CIMA
11 2 (0.44%) Dell Certification
11 2 (0.44%) IIBA
11 2 (0.44%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.04%) QA
2 18 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.75%) GDPR
4 7 (1.54%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.88%) SLA
6 3 (0.66%) PERC
7 2 (0.44%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.44%) PMO
8 1 (0.22%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.22%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (5.04%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.44%) Firmware
2 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (6.80%) Terraform
2 21 (4.61%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.95%) Ansible
3 18 (3.95%) Argo
3 18 (3.95%) Kustomize
3 18 (3.95%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.44%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.44%) WSUS
5 1 (0.22%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 61 (13.38%) Adobe
2 46 (10.09%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.14%) Google
4 14 (3.07%) Oracle
5 9 (1.97%) Cisco
6 7 (1.54%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.32%) Dell
8 5 (1.10%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.10%) CQG
8 5 (1.10%) Databricks
8 5 (1.10%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.10%) ION Trading
8 5 (1.10%) Juniper
8 5 (1.10%) Patsystems
8 5 (1.10%) Reuters
8 5 (1.10%) Trayport
9 4 (0.88%) NVIDIA
9 4 (0.88%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.88%) Toshiba
10 3 (0.66%) Aderant